Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:52:45 12/03/03
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On December 03, 2003 at 09:02:14, Matthew Hull wrote: >On December 03, 2003 at 02:27:55, Tony Werten wrote: >>> >>There's 1 more option. 11 rounds+speedchess could be easily played in 6 days >>rather than the 9 it took now. > > >Why do you insist on too many rounds in the first place? Has nobody been >listening? 11 rounds swiss is too many rounds for 16 players. You might as >well play a few more and make it round robin. > >MH > Yes. 4 more would do the trick. or 19 more and make it a double-RR. The last WCCC event I attended in 1989 was 5 rounds. They slowly stretched to 7 to 8 to ... to 11. Yet the field has gotten _no_ larger. I wonder if it is a way of _forcing_ participants to drop large amounts of money in hotel coffers?
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